We disenchant stories . . . when we explain them away. A preacher can silence the song in a good Christian parable by reducing the story to a moral. A psychoanalyst can disenchant one's precious life story by explaining it according to theory. We can disenchant a movie or a poem by going first to a critic to find out what the story means, if it is good or bad, and where it fits in the current vogue of criticism.
— Thomas Moore, The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life